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Discourse and Practice
New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis
Häftad, 2008
787 kr
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Adding a new introduction and two previously unpublished papers, Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis brings together Van Leeuwen's methodological work on discourse analysis of the last 15 years. Discourse, Van Leeuwen argues, is a resource for representation, a …
Elite U.S. Discourse and the Victims of Drone War
Av John Oddo
Inbunden, 2027
977 kr
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In the early years of the war on terror, the Unites States began to employ drones, or "unmanned aerial vehicles," to launch missiles at enemy forces. While drone strikes were initially limited to the war's central "fronts" in Afghanistan and Iraq, U.S. officials quickly expanded the drone program, …
The People That Never Were
Linguistic Scholarship and the Invention of the Aryans
Inbunden, 2025
920 kr
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Though most recognize the term Aryan, few understand its extensive and complex history. Scholars continue to debate the location of the original Aryan homeland, but unlike with the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Greece, or Rome, there is no direct textual or archeological evidence of an ancient …
Style, Mediation, and Change
Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Media
Av MORTENSEN, Mortensen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2705 kr
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When talk circulates through technological media - through television or radio and through the activities they support, like the dissemination of news, product advertising or entertainment - it takes on distinctive characteristics, functions and styles. The talking media have developed their own …
Style, Mediation, and Change
Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Media
Av Janus Mortensen, Nikolas Coupland m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
712 kr
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When talk circulates through technological media - through television or radio and through the activities they support, like the dissemination of news, product advertising or entertainment - it takes on distinctive characteristics, functions and styles. The talking media have developed their own …
In Pursuit of English
Language and Subjectivity in Neoliberal South Korea
Inbunden, 2021
2092 kr
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In Pursuit of English traces how the English language became an object of heated pursuit amid South Korea's rapid neoliberalization, creating the so-called "English fever" of the 1990s and 2000s. Joseph Sung-Yul Park demonstrates that English gained prominence not because of the language's supposed …
In Pursuit of English
Language and Subjectivity in Neoliberal South Korea
Häftad, 2021
536 kr
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In Pursuit of English traces how the English language became an object of heated pursuit amid South Korea's rapid neoliberalization, creating the so-called "English fever" of the 1990s and 2000s. Joseph Sung-Yul Park demonstrates that English gained prominence not because of the language's supposed …
Reimagining Rapport
Inbunden, 2021
2232 kr
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To do ethnography, a researcher must have rapport with research subjects. But what is rapport? Ethnography and ethnographic methods have increasingly become a feature of social inquiry in general and sociolinguistics in particular, and rapport is generally considered a prerequisite for fieldwork. …
Coherence in Psychotic Discourse
Inbunden, 1994
1865 kr
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Based on analysis of two psychiatric interviews, this book investigates ways of establishing coherence in the discourse of a thought-disordered patient. In the first interview, the patient is diagnosed as being in an acute psychotic state. In the second, the same patient is considered to be fully …
Coherence in Psychotic Discourse
Häftad, 1994
418 kr
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This fascinating study explores the ways of establishing coherence in the discourse of a thought-disordered patient. Ribeiro analyses the discourse between a doctor and a patient who is under an acute psychotic crisis, and then later, when the patient is deemed recovered. Ribeiro looks at how the …
Gender and Conversational Interaction
Häftad, 1993
1465 kr
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The author of the bestselling You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen has collected twelve papers about gender-related patterns in conversational interaction. The theoretical thrust of the collection, like that of Tannen's own work, is anthropological and sociolinguistic: female and male styles …
Therapeutic Ways with Words
Inbunden, 1994
1412 kr
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Most people know that therapists listen to people discuss their problems, and that they are paid for their services. Yet few people who have not undergone therapy know what actually goes on in these sessions, or have any idea about how talking to a stranger can be beneficial to one's mental health. …
Therapeutic Ways with Words
Häftad, 1994
1735 kr
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Most people know that therapists listen to people discuss their problems, and that they are paid for their services. Yet few people who have not undergone therapy know what actually goes on in these sessions, or have any idea about how talking to a stranger can be beneficial to one's mental health. …
Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register
Av Douglas Biber, Edward Finegan
Inbunden, 1994
2581 kr
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The guiding idea of this collection is to bring together a number of different perspectives on variation in language according to occasion of use. At present this is a rather ill-defined field of interest sometimes referred to as style variation and sometimes as register variation. This area has …
Sociolinguistic Perspectives
Papers on Language in Society, 1959-1994
Av Charles A. Ferguson, Thom Huebner
Inbunden, 1996
895 kr
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This is a collection of the most influential and important work of the distinguished sociolinguist Charles A. Ferguson, ranging from studies of baby talk across cultures to analyses of the impact of literacy and religion on cultures across the world.
Sociolinguistic Perspectives
Papers on Language in Society, 1959-1994
Av Charles A. Ferguson, Thom Huebner
Häftad, 1996
2948 kr
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This is a collection of the most influential and important work of the distinguished sociolinguist Charles A. Ferguson, ranging from studies of baby talk across cultures to analyses of the impact of literacy and religion on cultures across the world.
Claiming Power in Doctor-Patient Talk
Inbunden, 1998
2705 kr
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Although there is rising interest in medical discourse, there has not until now been a detailed analysis of doctor-patient interaction in a private practice setting. Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn has been able to tape both male and female doctors in such a setting. On the basis of these interviews, she …
Claiming Power in Doctor-Patient Talk
Häftad, 1998
938 kr
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Although there is rising interest in medical discourse, there has not until now been a detailed analysis of doctor-patient interaction in a private practice setting. Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn has been able to tape both male and female doctors in such a setting. On the basis of these interviews, she …
Kids Talk
Strategic Language Use in Later Childhood
Häftad, 1998
1793 kr
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This is the first collection of scholarship devoted to the language of older children and adolescents. It offers a cross-disciplinary perspective, with contributors from sociolinguistics, anthropology, and sociology, using a variety of analytic approaches. The chapters examine skillful and varied …
The Discourse of Classified Advertising
Exploring the Nature of Linguistic Simplicity
Inbunden, 1996
3036 kr
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Linguists who have studied simplified varieties of a given language, such as pidgins or the language of care-givers, have tended to explain similarities in their structure by the fact that they use the same mechanisms of simplification. Bruthiaux tests this idea by looking at the structure of …
The Linguistic Individual
Self-Expression in Language and Linguistics
Av Johnstone
Häftad, 1996
1777 kr
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Linguists usually discuss language or dialects in terms of groups of speakers. Believing that patterns can be seen more clearly in the group than the individual, researchers often present group scores with no indication of the variation within the group. Even though they all acknowledge that no two …
Queerly Phrased
Language, Gender, and Sexuality
Av Anna Livia, Kira Hall
Inbunden, 1997
3956 kr
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Queerly Phrased is a groundbreaking collection of previously unpublished essays that examine the relationship between language and the construction of gender and sexuality. Bridging the gap between sociolinguistics and gay studies, the contributors draw on traditional models of language analysis as …
Queerly Phrased
Language, Gender, and Sexuality
Av Anna Livia, Kira Hall
Häftad, 1997
1353 kr
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Queerly Phrased is a groundbreaking collection of previously unpublished essays that examine the relationship between language and the construction of gender and sexuality. Bridging the gap between sociolinguistics and gay studies, the contributors draw on traditional models of language anaylsis of …
Language in Time
The Rhythm and Tempo of Spoken Interaction
Av Peter Auer, Elizabeth Couper-Kühlen m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
4121 kr
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The authors here promote the reintroduction of temporality into the description and analysis of spoken interaction. They argue that spoken words are, in fact, temporal objects and that unless linguists consider how they are delivered within the context of time, they will not capture the full …
Interpreting as a Discourse Process
Inbunden, 1999
1771 kr
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This book studies interpreting between languages as a discourse process and as about managing ccommunication between two people who do not speak a common language. Roy examines the turn exchanges of a face-to-face interpreted event in order to offer a definition of interpreted events, describe the …
Talking About Treatment
Recommendations for Breast Cancer Adjuvant Treatment
Inbunden, 1999
714 kr
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This is the first analysis of the very charged and complex conversations that occur between breast cancer patients and their doctors. Robert focuses in particular on their conversations about possible avenues of treatment, and shows them to be, on the one hand, an active and mutual collaboration of …
The Language of Turn and Sequence
Av Cecilia E. Ford, Barbara A. Fox m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
3319 kr
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This collection of previously unpublished, cutting-edge research discusses the conversation analysis (CA) approach to understanding language use. CA is the dominant theory for analyzing the social use of language and is concerned with the description of how speakers engage in conversation and other …
Whales, Candlelight, and Stuff Like That
General Extenders in English Discourse
Inbunden, 2000
2909 kr
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This innovative work provides the first comprehensive account of general extenders ("or something", "and stuff", "or whatever"). Combining insights from linguistics, cognitive psychology, and interactional sociolinguistics, the author demonstrates that these small phrases are not simply vague …
A Place to Stand
Politics and Persuasion in a Working-Class Bar
Av Lindquist
Häftad, 2002
1041 kr
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Linguists have become increasingly interested in examining how class culture is socially constructed and maintained through spoken language. Julie Lindquist's examination of the linguistic ethnography of a working-class bar in Chicago is an important and original contribution to the field. She …
Sociolinguistic Variation
Critical Reflections
Inbunden, 2004
2444 kr
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This volume contains previously unpublished articles by the most prominent sociolinguists working in the study of language variation today, which when taken together both highlight this new direction, as well as critique conventional wisdom in this growing and vital field of study. The book is …
